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Two young girls watch and wave as cars go by on W. Florissant

two young girls watch and wave as cars go by on W. Florissant August 17, 2014

Title: Updates and Tweets August 28, 2014

Title: Town Hall meeting from Canfield (Ferguson) August 31, 2014

Tibetan Monks on W. Florissant

Tibetan Monks on W. Florissant August 17, 2014

Tibetan Monks in color on W. Florissant

Tibetan Monks in color on W. Florissant August 17, 2014

Tibetan Monk holding sign @Quick Trip W. Florissant

Tibetan Monk holding sign @Quick Trip W. Florissant August 17, 2014

They Say There's a Riot (Poem)

They Say There's a Riot men sure like their bullets they like them more than they love any thing it is not enough for them to piss away their own dull lives they must take aim at birds at beauty at black children the trouble with their guns is that the barrels are not curved and the bullets fire out in the wrong direction --May Allgire

The Ticket-Warrant Racket

This is my god daughter. Because of my connection to her I am acutely aware of the unjust racial profiling by St. Louis County police forces. I continue to try to free my sweet god daughter's father from a litany of ridiculous warrants attached to fines no white person would ever accrue. Her father has his record checked regularly as he steps off a bus, in random police checks. He is regularly jailed because his 10 yr old ticket for being in a park after "curfew" is now valued at $4000. He loses his minimum wage jobs when Jennings ships him to St. Ann, who then deliver him to Ferguson because he owes money to each of these. The money is all owed for nothing non-crimes. He is in a completely impossible situation, a situation that stresses their whole young family. No member of their extended family has access to a car. This has taught me what it means to have a lousy transportation system that only reaches the affluent and on which black men are checked for tickets over any other passengers. All of this is organized into the system. Only the wealthy nearly-all-white districts of St. Louis have the tax revenue to cover police, schools... The small, impoverished neighborhoods pay out the nose to be targeted, hunted down and stuffed into debtors' prisons

The Outcry

Photography taken at a outdoor meeting of Canfield Apartment residents weeks after the shooting death of Michael Brown Jr. A resident is being held by Pastor Traci Blackmon during the meeting.

The Black Caucus of the American Library Association, Inc. Resolution

Resolution written for the tree dedication ceremony for Michael Brown on April 18, 2015

The banner that I was handcuffed for holding.

My friend Elizabeth Vega and I stood above home plate at Busch Stadium as we unfurled this banner and refused to move. We opened our during the 3rd inning. Other friends held theirs at inning following. Theirs said other things relating to Michael Brown and the need for justice. We were yelled at throughout by Cardinals fans who asked the security guards to "lock em up." Soon the police were called and we were handcuffed, detained in a stadium holding room and escorted from the building. The fans cheered as we were led off in handcuffs.